I would agree with this. I'm currently busier than I have been at any time since about the middle of the .com boom in late 1999 early 2000.
If anything I'm even busier than I was back then. The difference is that I'm now only working remotely because I kinda got tired of living in hotels. Things really aren't as bad as the mainstream press would have you believe, but as with all commercial ventures, you need to make sure you have your marketing and advertising right. That applies either if you're looking for a job, or if you're running a business. You can't get business opportunities if you're not making yourself visible and actively looking for those opportunites in some way. The details of how to best do that are probably best left as the contents of an academic paper. ;) Spike James Goins wrote: > David, > > In the last three months I have turned down several jobs because I was overbooked. > > Last month I was offered a full time job with benefits making $15,000 more per year > than I was making 4 years ago during boom times. > > My secret - I have just continued to hustle and been fortunate to come up with > regular consulting gigs during the last 3 or 4 years. As a result my skills have > been greatly upgraded, by having to continually hit the ground running at everything > from well organized > FuseBox and Mach-II development to horrendous spahghetti applications in CF 4. > > Right now there is a lot of more opportunity for good CFers than there has been for > the last 4 years. Work at it and be tenacious. Don't talk and read yourself into > failure. Best of luck to you. > > > Jim > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Simcik > To: CF-Jobs-Talk > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:08 PM > Subject: The State of Programming in the United States? > > > Hi, > I read a truly scary article on the Christian Science Monitor last > week that stated rather matter-a-factly that the American programmer was > about to become as extinct as the dinosaur because of foreign > competition. As people that are in the know, at least as far as Cold > Fusion development is concerned, do you think this position is true? If > so, what are you doing about it? If not, why is it different? I must > admit as someone that has been doing Cold Fusion/Java development for > close to 7 years now that I was pretty darn frightened by what I read > and there doesn't seem to be a whole heck of a lot going on for > programmers on sites like Monster.com, etc either. Tell me what you > think -- I'm all ears. > > Kind Regards, > DTS > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=38 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:11:2092 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/11 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:11 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
